MAAS

Node's hostname field contains a domain part (.local by default)

Bug #1452154 reported by Raphaël Badin on 2015-05-06

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	MAAS	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

By default, nodes are named <generated-hostname>.local. That's what gets stored in the 'hostname' field of a node. This was introduced long ago when MAAS was using avahi by default. Now that MAAS no longer uses avahi, this is no longer required; more than that, this "feature" has created a lot of confusion and bugs.

The problem with changing this is, of course, upgrades: we can't just change the node hostname validation mechanism to refuse domain parts in hostname because existing nodes would not be valid anymore. What I suggest we do for now is leave existing nodes alone but drop the ".local" suffix for newly created nodes.

List of related bugs:

- bug 1274101
- bug 1452053